I think they'd like to run against CAIN also. Axelrod would make Cain's inexperience and amateur background the focus of their attacks.
One thing I can give Romney credit for, and maybe Obama does fear this about him - he's the best liar of anyone. Even better than Obama and Axelrod. He can lie his way out of a paper bag and make an audience laugh. Especially in Nevada.
Yes, I agree. Cain would be easy pickings for the Dems, who completely ignored the fact that their VP candidate in the last election, Biden, was a total idiot and a complete gaffe machine. But they were protected by the press, and Cain would certainly not be protected by the press.
Romney is the best liar of them all, but I think he’s lied so often by now that few solid GOPers would vote for him, and I can’t even think of one I know who would work for him. People discount what volunteers on the ground do, but I know that during the last elections, I convinced many people who weren’t even going to vote to go out and vote for McCain because they were (a) voting for Palin and (b) he might get us better Supreme Court appointments.
In the case of Romney, I don’t think he’d get us better anything, and in fact I think he’d reinforce Obama’s statist program and even make it worse by driving conservatives out of the GOP.